Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

March 16, 2020

Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government intervention on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic

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  • The authors emphasize the importance of handwashing, mask-wearing and social distancing as strategies to mitigate and delay the COVID-19 epidemic. Wide spread awareness on these self-imposed prevention measures and government-imposed social distancing can buy time for healthcare systems to prepare for an increasing COVID-19 burden. 

Teslya et al. (Mar 12, 2020). Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government intervention on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic. Pre-print downloaded Mar 16 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.12.20034827